In January 2009 during its annual general meeting, the IPC decided to create a new, open ended, working group on the broad issue of developing a different vision of the global governance of food and agriculture to reflect on the key developments shaping the global food and agricultural environment, as well as to promote the concept of food sovereignty, new rules for global governance with participation of food producers and consumers in rule-making, and the alternative local practises of agriculture and food production.
The group started to work in 2009 just after the Madrid High Level Meeting on Food for All, focusing on two specific tasks:

(1) a metaevaluation of the UN food system with the intention of launching a process of consultation with movements in all regions and building alliances with other civil society actors, leading to the progressive development of alternative proposals for addressing the food crisis and for global governance;
(2) and, (2) the production of a document that helps local movements orient themselves to the significance of global level food and agricultural processes and to broaden understanding of local-global linkages in food and agriculture within wider IPC movement.

The working goup is composed by the following person: Sarojeni Rengam (PAN-AP); Maryam Rahmanian (CENESTA); Herman Kumara (WFFP); Nico Veraghen (LVC); Pat Mooney (ETC); Antonio Onorati (IPC); Nora McKeon (Terra Nuova); Falvio Valente (FIAN).